The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce

ISBN: 9780789022141

出版年: 2004-12

页数: 402

定价: $ 90.34

内容简介

Develop a Parent Coordination program and minimize high stress for children of divorce! This book offers a practical model for psychotherapists working as parent coordinators in collaboration with the Courts. The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies and Techniques provides professionals with an understanding of high-conflict divorce and its impact on children and families. This comprehensive guide lays out a step by step roadmap with tools and directives to help therapists develop and market a parent coordination practice. In The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies and Techniques, you'll learn to diffuse parental conflict while teaching parents to remain child-focused. You'll also find techniques and strategies for dealing with various behaviors commonly exhibited by conflicted parents. This book examines additional factors such as unresolved anger, over-involved step-parents, and the impact of alcohol, abuse, and personality disorders while showing how to maintain control in a variety of situations. The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies and Techniques gives you vital information and recommendations on: the child's developmental, physical, and emotional needs time-sharing arrangements and parenting plans how to understand and work effectively with the legal system how to manage and minimize parental alienation how to teach communication and conflict resolution skills how to work with emotionally impared parents and much more In addition to numerous tables and charts, The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies and Techniques provides methods of parental communication, time-sharing plans, and additional reading sources. More importantly, the appendix provides reproducible forms for your own parent coordination practice, including: standards of practice for parent coordination sample stipulation appointing a parent coordinator sample contracts a checklist for structuring parent coordination sessions a checklist for parenting plans